At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones
| Source: Fast Company AI
Tags: Black Hat, cybersecurity, AI security, threat detection, AI-generated code
Black Hat 2026 put AI's dual cybersecurity role in sharp relief: conference network admins are using AI to triage thousands of daily security alerts, while AI-generated apps with poor security hygiene are emerging as a new attack surface for the practitioners hunting them.
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Fast Company reports from Black Hat 2026, where AI's simultaneous role as defensive tool and vulnerability source was a central theme. On the defensive side, the conference's network operations team is deploying AI to sort through the volume of security alerts generated during the event — a live demonstration of AI-assisted threat triage in one of the world's most adversarial network environments. On the offensive side, the explosion of AI-generated applications is creating a new category of target: code produced by developers who built and deployed without understanding what the AI wrote or whether it was secure. These apps are reaching production with vulnerabilities that rigorous security review would have caught. The article's available content is thin — only the abstract was captured. Specific tools, named researchers, or detailed case studies from the conference could not be verified from the extracted text. Read the Fast Company piece directly for practitioner-level detail from the event.